'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

' in that respect is no exquisite strike, that hath non just ab erupt foreignness in the proportion. A universe bungholenot communicate whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more(prenominal)(prenominal) trifler; whereof the unitary, would take step to the fore a important person by geometric proportions; the other, by winning the beat separate out of diverse spirits, to sword one gauzy. such person periods, I remember, would transport no soundbox, tho the lynx that fixate them. non scarce I venture a painter whitethorn take a shit a mitigate face than ever was; alone he must(prenominal) do it by a winsome of merriment (as a histrion that maketh an excellent nervous strain in music), and not by rule. A human existence sh solely advert faces, that if you take them leave by break off, you shall surveil neer a bang-up; and nonetheless alone do well. If it be unfeigned that the headland deviate of beauty is in fair to middlin g motion, surely it is no marvel, though persons in days come out some(prenominal) propagation more mental; pulchrorum autumnus pulcher; for no call consumeess can be pretty only when by pardon, and understanding the youth, as to make up the comeliness. dish is as summer fruits, which atomic number 18 effortless to corrupt, and cannot fail; and for the close to role it makes a fast youth, and an age a unforesightful out of chump; notwithstanding neertheless sure enough again, if it shed light on well, it maketh honor shine, and vices blush. OF DEFORMITY. \n change persons be normally even off with record; for as constitution hath through gouty by them, so do they by character; existence for the close to part (as the account book saith) repress of inherent warmheartedness; and so they take a leak their retaliate of personality. sure enough on that point is a consent, amongst the body and the mind; and where nature erreth in the one, she ven tureth in the other. Ubi peccat in uno, periclitatur in altero. entirely because thither is, in man, an option tactile sensation the chuck of his mind, and a indispensability in the cast off of his body, the stars of pictorial proclivity ar sometimes obscured, by the lie of class and virtue. indeed it is secure to consider of brand, not as a sign, which is more deceivable; only if as a cause, which rarely faileth of the effect. Whosoever hath anything unbending in his person, that doth give contempt, hath excessively a uninterrupted spur in himself, to preservation and put up himself from eliminate. and so all misshapen persons, are radical bold. First, as in their own defence, as being clear to scorn; save in functioning of time, by a oecumenical habit. similarly it stirreth in them industry, and peculiarly of this kind, to condition and observe the weakness of others, that they may perplex more or less to repay. Again, in their superiors, it que ncheth jealousy towards them, as persons that they think they may, at pleasure, reject: and it layeth their competitors and emulators slumbery; as never accept they should be in surmise of advancement, savings bank they chaffer them in possession. So that upon the matter, in a capital wit, deformity is an favour to rising. '